Polychloramidin and process of making same.



I CONRAD SCHEQAUBE AND ERNST LAUDIEN,

zene, or of v-tetrachlorbenzene, when either b in. which case it is necessary to dins UNITED s'rnzrns ASSIGNORS TO BADISCHE GERMANY. A CORPORATION.

, POLYCHLORAMIDIN AND PROCESS PATENT canton OF LUDWIGSHAFEN-ON-THE-Rl-IINE, GERMANY, ANILIN & SODA FABRIK, OF LUDWIGSHAFEN-ONTHE-RHINE,

OF IMAKING SAME Application filed-Tune 12, 1906.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Serial N0. 321,347. (Specimena) To all whom it may concern: Be it known that we, CONRAD SGHRAUBE and ERNsT LAUDIEN, doctors of philosophy and chemists, subjects of the King of Prussia, residing at Ludwigshafen-on-theRl1ine, in the Kingdom of Bavaria German Empire, have invented newand useful Improvements in Polychloramidins and Processes of Making Same, of which the following is a s ecifica-tion. 4

ur invention relates to the manufacture and production ofpolychloramidins from astrich ordiamidobenzene, that is to say, amipossessing the constitution represented by the following formula n-c-ii ll- N1 oi oily (where indicates hydrogen, or alphy'l, or aryl, X indicates hydro en, or alphyl, and where one Y indicates c orin whilethe other Y indicates hydrogen, or chlorin).. We pre are these new compounds by reducing the orthomitroacylamid'o derivatives (either a phylated .or unalphylated) of as-trichlorbenthe ringformatio'n takes place during the re action, or the diamido compound is obtained,

heat this latter, either alone, or in the resence of a dehydrating agents Generally a mixture of the amidin and the diamido compound is obtained, and it is then unnecessary to separate the two compounds, for, by merely heating themlxture, e ther alone, or in the presence of a deh drating agent, the amidin alone is obtaine .1 A

' The generalreactions which take place when carrying out this invention can be illustrated by the following equations radical."

\ with an'alphylatin agent We have also found that the alphyl derivatives of the unalphylated triand tetra-chloramidinscan' be obtained by treating an alkali salt of such trior tetra-chloramidins such for instance as methy chloric The alphyl trichlor amidins, obtained in this way, are isomeric and not identical with those obtained by re ducing the corresponding ortho-nitro-alphylacyl-amido derivatives of trichlorbenzene.

The abbreviations as and v are used to denote the words asymmetrical and -.vicinal in the manner well known to and used bycheniists.

Our new compounds will make nitrocellu' lose swell and can therefore be substituted for camphor in the manufacture of subptances resembling celluloidfrom nitrocelluose. r

The following examples will serve to further illustrate the nature of our invention and how it can be carried into practical effect, but our invention is not confined to these examples. The parts are by weight.

Example l: Heat together, in a reflux aparatus, while stirring, one hundred (100) one thousand (1,000) parts of Xylene, until a test portion of the xylene solution, when heated with alcohol and caustic not show any yellow coloration. When the reduction is'complete extract'the reaction product by meansot hot x 'lene, whereupon crystals are obtained from which the ethenyltrichloraniidin, melting at a temperature of two hundred and eighty-five (285) degrees 'centigrade, can be obtained by fractional crystallization from alcohol, the impurities being less soluble in this solvent than, is the amidin.

Example 2.: A better yield of .ethenyl l trichloramidincan be obtained as follows. Heat together, in a reflux apparatus,while stirring, one hundred (100) site of l-aoetyh "amide 2 nitro 3 4.6. -'tricl orbenzene (ob tained by the, nitration of as-acettrichlorliU soda, does I t'ion of the xy three hundred and four (304), degrees centianilid), four hundred (400) parts ofir'on, meters), whereupon the homogeneous amidin teen parts of glacial'acetic acid, six' is obtained. r

l Example 6: Reduce onehundred (100) parts of .1 ethylacetylamido-2-nitro-3.4 6-

alcohol and caustic soda, does not show an? yellow coloration. When he reduction is and amidin, which separates from the xylene 1 solution, with double the quantity of glacial acetic acid on thewat'er-bath for twenty (20) hours. The crystals, which separate out at the end of this time, melt at a temperature of from ninety-eight (98), to ninety-nine (99),

egrees Centigrade and'consist of the acetate 7 Z of ethylethenyltrichloramidin which upon being heated at a temperature of one hun- Example 3: Heat'together, in a reflux a ture of from one hundred and sixteen (116),

one thousand (1,000) parts of xylene, until a test portion of the xylene solution, when heated with alcohol and caustic soda, does not show any yellow coloration. When the its solubility appears to us to be most suitable for the manufacture of celluloid-like odies. I Example 7: Reduce one hundred (100) parts of 1-acetylamido-2-nitro-3.4.5.6-tetrachlorbenzene in the manner described in example 1. Crystals of t e corresponding (20) ours on the water-bath. diamido compound are obtained'from the Example 4: Heat together, in a reflux a Xyl n soluti n and, upon bein heated at a paratus, while stirring, one hundred (100) temperature of three hundred 5300) degrees parts of 1-formylamido -2-nitro-3.4.6 tricentigrade and upon sublimation, are conchlorbenzene (obtained by nitrating asverted into ethenyltetrachloramidin. formyltrichloranilid), four hundred (400) Example 8: Reduce l-ethylacetylamidoparts of iron, thirty (30) parts of thirty (30) 2-nitro-3.4.5.6-tetrachlorbenzene in the manpercent. hydrochloric acid, six hundred (600) nor described in example 1 and heat the ob parts of water, and one thousand (1000) tained diamido'oompound for several hours parts of xylene. When the reduction is in glacial acetic acid solution whereupon complete add caustic soda solution until the etliylethenyltetrachloramidin, melting at a tion product by means of hot xylenefrom (149 degrees Centigrade, is obtained. B which, upon cooling, methenyltrichlorami-' treating the benzyl compound of l-acetyldin separates out. This can be purified by amido- -nitro-3.4.5.fi-tetrachlorbenzene in a sublimation and melts at a temperature of similar manner, the corresponding diamido from three hundred and three (303), to 4 compound and benzylethenyltetrachloramimelting at afiemperature of from one grade. The corresponding formyltrichlorhundred and sevent -six (176), to one hunorthophenylenediamin upon being melted dred and seventy-seven (177), degrees cenis'converted into the amidin. tigrade, can be obtained.

Example 5: Reduce one hundred (100)- Example 9: Reduce one hundred (100) parts of 1methylformylamido-2-nitro-34.6- parts of 1-benzoylamido-2-nitro-3.4.6-tritrichlorbenzene as described in the foregoing chlorbenzene in the manner described in the example 1. T e xylene solution, on coolin foregoing example 1, and'distil in cacao the yields crystals of methylmethenyltrichlordiamido compound so obtained, whereupon amidin (melting point from one hundred and benzenyltrichloramidin, melting at a temfty-nine (159), to one hundred and sixty perature of from two hundred and sixty- (160), degrees centigrade), mixed'with the eight (268), to two hundred and sixty-nine corresponding diamido compound. These (269 degrees centigrade, is obtained. two compounds can be separated by frac- Example 10: Dissolve one hundred (100) tional crystallization from xylene, or the l parts of ethenyltrichloramidin (prepared as w ole can be distilled m cacao (boiling point described in example 1) in a solution of ten two hundred and thirty (230) degrees ccnti- (10) parts of sodium in four hundred (400) grade at a pressure of fourteen (14) millil parts of wood spirit. Then add sixty-six (66) parts of methyl iodid end boil the whole in a reflux e. paratus for twenty Q20) hours, then clistil 0 the wood spirit, treat the residue with water, and recrystallize the product so obtained from benzene, alcohol. In. this way methylethenyltrlchlormnidin of the formula. given below 1s obtained:

cu GE S-I l u N. 01 01: lCl

Now what we claim is:

1. The rocess for the production of polychlorainit ins by reducing" a hereinbefore defined orthonitroa-cylsmido polychlorbenzene.

2. The process for the production of polychlorumidins by reducing a. hereinbefore defined orthonitroacylamidr polychlorbenzene and heating the product so obtained.

,3. The rocess for the production of polychloramidins by reducing a hereinbefore dcfined orthonitroacylumido polychlorbenzene and heating in the presence of a dehydrating agent the product so obtained.

4. As new' articles of manufacture the polychlorainidins which can be obtained by reducing a hereinbefore de med orthonitroacylarmdo polychlorbenzene, which amidins possess the property of being able to make nitrocellulose swell and consist when pure of colorless crystals which are soluble in hot or from dilute xyl me, and which possess a constitution corresponding to the hereinbefore defined formula X rho-i1 A or 5. As anew article of manufacture ethylcthenyltrichloremidin which can be obtained by reducing 1-ethylecetylamido-Z-nitro 3.4.B-trichlorbenzene which amidin possesses the property of being able to make nitrocellulose swell and consists when pure of colorless crystals which melt at e temperature of about one hundred and sixteen egrees centigrsde, which are soluble in hot xylene and which possess aconstitutiQll POI- responding to the formula In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two sub- 

